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Where Land is Rare
I stood on the cliffs and looked out to blue, blue sea, the bobbing boats with lines and nets in the bounty. ——- An innocence spread out on the tortured ruins below the rippling waves where we came too late, too slow. – Heard the bells of the churches and cathedrals…
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Goodness Sown
Politics is the name but man -ipulation the game as they have learned to use our prejudices against us, leaning on us like toppling trees to sway our thinking and blow away our morality. Murdoch has tumbled the ——————— numbers to open he safe, of sanity and pushed the news into his own road. And…
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A Moment of Grace
For a moment it blazed across the sky, deep rubies, amethyst and gold as the sun sank below the sea leaving me. I looked and saw through the colours into a lit space where all was possible beyond imagining, For a moment time stopped. Then the sun sank and darkness collected around me – yet…
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Help! Look what’s happened!
O phial from astra Zeneca we adore you, the first drops made in Europe delayed by ports and threats and paperwork. Millions more expected, so they say as they sit around a table and nod their heads with Eton wisdom, while thousands and thousands and more sicken daily, and a thousand and more die from…
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A Woman’s Choice
She peeled back her skin and saw that she was raw material for a marketing machine that would make a fortune in denying the fragile existence of a woman because she was fitted out in the wrong covering. —— Leaving her tight skin friends another floated into money by stripping out her stomach and pretending…
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Ghosts of Christmas
They politely exercise their prero -gatives by sitting on our beds when we crack open an urgent eye to begin the day. They come to us in each piece of wrapping paper and gift, the stockings on the mantelpiece breaking open wounds and joys and hurts and crazy memories of floundering ———— in…
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The Shepherds
Did the star, so bright, kill the night? The baby silent in submission to the hands of unloved men and women? Did angels hover and sing so sweetly? Filling the sky with their susurration, articulating the glory of an organic God? ================================ Did Mary know that the sweat, pain and agony of giving birth; was…
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A Letter to Santa
I’ve written my letter and sent you my note, he’s bound to see just what I wrote, its not a lot but I’m sure he’ll see that all these things are not for me. ============= Dear Santa, please may I have a big box of peace, homes and hope along with my socks, a jigsaw…
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Oh the Children!
I was a hiding again in the cupboard, they had started again and the grinding hatred was spat out in words and then he hit her, over and over. I heard her moans and then screams and then all went silent and I’d wet myself again. ================ I stayed still and silent hoping that he…
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